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Oral history interview with John Bucur

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.203 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0160

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    Oral history interview with John Bucur

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    John Bucur, born in Youngstown, Ohio on March 5, 1925, describes his childhood; his Romanian-American parents; the multiracial community he grew up in; graduating high school in 1943 as the valedictorian of his class and receiving a scholarship to Ohio University; enlisting in the Army and being sent to Fort Sill, where he received training to be in Battery B of the 17th Observation Battalion; his first assignment watching a ship off the shore of Omaha Beach in France on D-Day; his unit’s move through England, France, and Germany and then going on a tour of Buchenwald at the end of the war; taking college courses at an American School in Biarritz, France after the war; returning home on December 7, 1945 and being discharged from the army; finishing his degree at Ohio University and graduating in 1948; going on to medical school and becoming a neurosurgeon; having five children with two wives; and moving to Arlington, Virginia to found Fairfax Hospital, Northern Virginia Doctor’s Hospital, and the National Orthopedic Hospital.
    Interviewee
    John Bucur
    Interviewer
    Esther Finder
    Date
    interview:  2003 August 18

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bucur, John, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with John Bucur on August 18, 2003. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in September 2003.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:12:47
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